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Judy

By Gerold Frank

The tumultuous life story of Judy Garland, based on more than two hundred interviews and authorized access to her private papers, by the New York Times –bestselling biographer. Gerold Frank met with legendary singer and actress Judy Garland to collaborate on her...

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Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution

By Mark Puls

"A brief, sharply focused biography [that] restores Adams to his rightful place as an indispensable provocateur of American liberty" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would...

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How to Tame a Fox

By Lyudmila Trut

This true story of an amazing breeding experiment in Siberia is "part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that...

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Like a Wave We Break

By Jane Marie Chen

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The courageous memoir of one woman’s globe-spanning journey of unraveling and awakening—breaking free of the narratives that once defined her and confronting the long-buried truths of a traumatic past—by the former CEO and co-founder of Embrace....

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Nothing to Envy

By Barbara Demick

An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” ( The New York Review of Books ), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in...

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The Mauritanian

By Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review ). When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted...

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12, 20 & 5

By John A. Parrish

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir,...

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The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

By Martin Windrow

This memoir of the relationship between a British military historian and a Tawny Owl is "a small masterpiece of animal literature . . . [a] perfect book" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Mumble was so much a part of my life in those days that the oddity of our...

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The Little Princesses

By Marion Crawford

Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England. We all know how the fairy tale ended: When...

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What in the World?!

By Leanne Morgan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan’s new standup special, Unspeakable Things, and her hit sitcom, Leanne, both available on...

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